Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection N-Z

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[Laire], Serie delle edizioni aldine, Padua, Brandolese, 1790, contemporary tan flexible boards

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June 25, 08:34 PM GMT

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[Laire, François Xavier]. Serie delle edizioni aldine per ordine cronologico ed alfabetico. Seconda edizione Con Emendazionie Giunte. Padua: Pietro Brandolese, 1790


Second edition, edited by the Venetian librarian and bibliographer Jacobo Morelli, who added numerous Aldine editions to the list.


12mo (182 x 103 mm, uncut). Roman and italic type. collation: π4 A–G12 H8: 96 leaves. Annotated with marginal Xs, indicating perhaps the works owned by an eighteenth-century collector.


binding: Contemporary cream-colored flexible boards (183 x 110 mm), manuscript paper label on spine, plain endpapers and edges. Soiled and rather rubbed spine.)


acquisition: Purchased from Rulon-Miller Books, St Paul, 1991. reference: UCLA 1185A (wrongly as Pisa: Luigi Raffaelli, 1790; error corrected in UCLA library OPAC); Breslauer & Folter 115 note; cf. Grolier/Aldus 137

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